Giovanni Zatara had, in his life, went against evil threats of magical nature over and over again. The Demons Three, Wotan, countless nameless denizens of hell and, once more today, Felix Faust.
None of them could come close to the evil the... being in front of him represented. The threat it posed to his life, and his most precious treasure!
"Where were we again?" A boy talking to his daughter!
Sindella, his beautiful wife, send him some patience from the heavens for if she sent strength he would use it to beat this pretty boy like a Cherokee drum!
"Young man, may I ask what you did?" There, that was a non confrontational and not rude way to get him to stop talking to his daughter. Oh, and knowing what he did to Faust was also important.
"Yeah, you just froze him. How did you do that?" His daughter was still talking to him, his plan didn't work!
"Hmm, that? It's nothing important. I just slowed him down until he wouldn't be a threat." He said with a shrug and Giovanni took a deep breath to calm himself down.
What this boy was talking about like the weather of the day was time manipulation! Why on earth was he acting like it was 'nothing important'?!
"I... see." Giovanni said as he tried to appear calm in front of the boy who had just claimed to manipulate time and, more importantly, was talking to his daughter!
"Was there any reason you wished to... talk?" He asked, he needed to understand the intentions of this boy. It wasn't like he thought that he was evil, other than being far too close to his daughter. He had just helped them deal with a very evil wizard like Felix Faust after all, but making sure to understand one's intentions was important; especially the intentions of those who held power over fundamental laws of reality!
"Oh yes, yes there is. I am looking for someone and I had thought that you might know where he is." Ok, that wasn't such a bad reason.
"And who is this person?"
"Kent Nelson."
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"Was there actually a reason for the attack on Giovanni Zatara?" Lex Luthor, the greatest mind on earth; the owner of Lexcorp and the greatest enemy of Superman, asked with a sigh as he looked at the projections of the other members of the Light.
"It was funny, that's my reason. Hehahahah!" Klarion the Witch Boy, as eloquent as always. Lex did not know why the eldritch abomination with the attention span of a particularly dumb goldfish was among the greatest minds of the planet but he was not exactly comfortable with asking due some of the feats of the mentioned eldritch abomination had achieved throughout the years. Feats like turning people's intestines into their outtestines with a snap of his fingers.
"I concur with Lex, this act seemed rather... needless." Ra's al Ghul, leader of the biggest group of assassins on the world and a man that Lex might have respected if it wasn't for his ridiculous schemes like trying to put a giant laser satellite on space and using it to destroy cities. That thing would have been taken down by any of the Green Lanterns or the Man of Steel even if the Dark Knight of Gotham had failed to stop the launch.
"While I do find the act of making a magic user of the surface suffer... amusing. Even I have to admit this seemed rather pointless." And Ocean Master, an Atlantean criminal who hated the surface world and would have never worked with them if it wasn't for the ridiculous amounts of resources he got as their... coworker.
"The reason we sent him no longer matters, we have more pressing concerns." Vandal Savage, the oldest human in all the world, said with his face set on his signature glare.
There were two more members to their club, but fortunately the walking mad science experiment and the harlot masquerading as a queen did not speak.
"The one who stopped the rampage of Faust, this... Victor Stark." Savage said as the footage of the battle appeared on their screens and Lex had to admit, he kinda liked the kid's snark. He also liked he wasn't hiding behind a secret identity the rest of the so called heroes did, it was more respectable and it made things easier for them.
"Do nous know how this... monsieur Stark stopped Felix Faust?" Brain, the walking science project, asked with a thick French accent. Lex was also curious about the method though.
"What, you guys can't see it? It's temporal deceleration." Everyone's turned to the magical powerhouse among them, who was picking his ear with his pinky while his other hand was used to pet his cat.
"Is he a mage then?" The only one among them who didn't seem bothered, which was Savage as usual, asked with a tilt of his head and Klarion scoffed.
"Nah. He seems to have some talent in magic, but that wasn't it. Not everyone can just mess with time with no grandeurs like that. If he was a magic user with that kind of power, we would either know who he was or there would have been a big boom when he entered this dimension." The young looking abomination laughed at the less than funny image he had just planted into their head.
"So, a meta human then." Queen Bee, the current ruler and dictator of Bialya, said with a throaty voice.
"Most likely." And Savage agreed with her with a nod.
"We will need to keep an eye on this Victor Stark. His powers can be used to further our goals if he is on our side but it's also unacceptable in the hands of our enemies, especially after our recent losses." Ra's al Ghul said with a frown and Lex had to agree with him.
It had been already a disaster when they had ended up losing Project Kr and then the Cult of the Kobra, even if they managed to salvage the Blockbuster Venom project.
"Then it is settled. Victor Stark will be brought into the Light. Willingly or unwillingly." Savage declared with a smirk and then their screens went offline.